Interview with Caribbean Business (May 17, 2007)
“Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.”
Lecture at Yale University Law School (1923) as quoted in The American Journal of International Law Vol. 29 (1935), p. 32
Other writings
Context: Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
“Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
Justice, even if slow, is sure.”
Plutarch Solon, ch. 2; translation by Bernadotte Perrin. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plut.+Sol.+2.1
Letter to Attorney General William H. Moody (August 9, 1904); reported in Homer S. Cummings, Federal Justice (1937), p. 500
1900s
“Not justice, please, not justice. We would all be fools to pray for justice.”
The Curse of Chalion (2000)
Context: "Mercy from the Father and the Mother, mercy from the Sister and the Brother, Mercy from the Bastard, five times mercy, High Ones, we beseech you."… Mercy, High Ones. Not justice, please, not justice. We would all be fools to pray for justice.
“In the Halls of Justice, the only justice is in the halls.”
Lenny Brucehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5241370.stm
24 June 2022 "Boston Mayor Michelle Wu says overturning Roe v. Wade will 'ruin lives'" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrmQGDRoWCY
“Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.”
Post-Prime Ministerial
“Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.”
As quoted in The Unlawful Concert : An Account of the Presidio Mutiny Case (1970) by Fred Gardner.
Unsourced French: Il suffit d'ajouter "militaire" à un mot pour lui faire perdre sa signification. Ainsi la justice militaire n'est pas la justice, la musique militaire n'est pas la musique.
It suffices to add "military" to a word for it to lose its meaning. Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
“Justice is to social justice like a chair to an electric chair.”
